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I don't think Tube sites are nearly as threatening as they were when you could make a lot of money with bullshit advertising companies like AVNAds. Tube sites can no longer host free full videos and depend on making money by tricking surfers into clicking adware-prone advertisements. You now mainly see these 3 types of tubes:
1. Paysite tube - you can view a couple videos for free, or shorter clips, and must pay for high quality/full versions. (Not really a threat to traditional paysites or at least not really a threat to selling porn)
2. Clusterfuck TGP Tube - Since advertising revenue is low, and affiliate revenue (due to shitty traffic/low conversions) will also be low for these kind of tubes, they're basically the new TGP. People that don't want to get jerked around clicking on bullshit advertisments and what have you, would still rather pay for clean looking advertisement free straight forward porn sites. The people that will put up with it would be just like people that go to TGPs. I've also noticed a lot of these types of tubes shortening their clips and putting up more sponsor/affiliate style links (Still incentive for surfers to pay for porn due to these types of tubes being annoying)
3. Big sites like youporn that aren't spammy/clusterfuck that I have a hard time believing turn a profit after bandwidth costs, though they may get bandwidth exceptionally cheap. These types of tubes would really be the only/biggest threat. They're also the most 'illegal' and should have a more likely chance of being shut down.
If the really big sites like youporn that actually host user generated content of 10 minute or longer clips, with no popups, no particularly misleading links or circle jerking, get shut down, then there really won't be much of a problem with tubes at all.
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